Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Fatal Misstep?

Until this week, the Obama campaign's strategy of interest group
payoffs and demonization of Romney seemed, if tawdry, at least a
possible route to re-election. The president's promises to deliver more
and more "free" stuff for carefully selected grantees -- adorned in the
language of sticking up for the "middle class" -- appeared to have a
chance of success.

But the decision to embrace one of the least popular Democratic
positions of the past 100 years -- opposition to the work requirement
for welfare recipients -- is inexplicable politically. It's also illegal
and imperious. Let's stick with politics, because it's old news that
Obama has contempt for the rule of law. He's declined to "take care that
the laws be faithfully executed" on many subjects: immigration, the
Defense of Marriage Act, labor laws and environmental rules, among
others. Those were lawless but politically logical acts. Not this.

Welfare policies (along with weakness on defense and crime) had been a
vulnerability for Democrats throughout the 1970s and 1980s -- an
Achilles heel that Bill Clinton recognized in 1992. His promise to "end
welfare as we know it" was the gravamen of his claim to "new Democrat"
status. Once safely elected, Clinton downgraded welfare reform, and, in
fact, increased funding for all of the traditional welfare programs in
the federal budget. But when Republicans gained control of the House of
Representatives in 1994, they took the initiative. By 1996, after
vetoing two welfare reform bills, Clinton was advised by Dick Morris
that if didn't sign the legislation, he wouldn't be re-elected; it was
that important to voters. Immediately after signing the bill, Clinton's
approval rating on welfare jumped by 19 points.

The law changed the old AFDC, Aid to Families with Dependent
Children, to TANF, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. In place of
the open-ended entitlement to benefits for unmarried women and their
children, the law imposed a five-year limit and the requirement that
those able to work seek employment. In 2005, the work requirements were
strengthened.

The prospect of asking welfare recipients to seek work struck most
liberals in 1996 (including Obama) as degrading, cruel and doomed to
failure. Three high-ranking Clinton administration officials resigned in
protest. The New York Times called the reform "atrocious," objecting
that "This is not reform, this is punishment." Tom Brokaw, interviewing
the president, said "all the projections show that ... (the reform) will
push, at least short term, more than a million youngsters ... below the
poverty line." The Children's Defense Fund called the law "an outrage
... that will hurt and impoverish millions of American children ... and
leave a moral blot on (Clinton's) presidency." Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan
called the law "the most brutal act of social policy we have known since
the Reconstruction. ... In five years' time, you'll find appearing on
your streets abandoned children ... in numbers we have no idea." Sen.
Edward Kennedy, with characteristic understatement, called the bill
"legislative child abuse."

Well, what really happened? Welfare caseloads declined by 50 percent
within four years of the law's passage and by 70 percent by the time
Obama took office. The overwhelming majority of those who left welfare
rolls did so because they found jobs -- and not just the worst jobs,
either. By 2001, a Manhattan Institute study found, only 4 percent of
former welfare mothers were earning minimum wage. The poverty rate
declined from 13.8 percent in 1995 to 11.7 percent in 2003. Black child
poverty dropped to its lowest levels in history. Childhood hunger was
cut in half. It was the greatest social policy success of the past 50
years.

Yes, the late 1990s were boom years for the economy. So had the 1960s
and 1980s been. Yet welfare rolls increased during those previous
expansions.

Why did Obama do it? Why issue new regulations from the Department of
Health and Human Services (in bold violation of the law) granting
waivers to states to alter work requirements? Obama's election
notwithstanding, there is little reason to think that the nation has
moved left on the welfare issue. Most working Americans, including most
poor Americans, believe that paying people for idleness is wrong.

Obama is trying to persuade Americans that while he has expanded food
stamps to unprecedented levels, extended unemployment insurance to 99
weeks, vastly increased the already overwhelmed Medicaid program,
created a new trillion dollar entitlement with Obamacare and expanded
the size of the federal government to a percentage of gross domestic
product not seen since World War II, that he is not the dependency
president. By stepping back into history to embrace the Democrats'
nemesis -- unrestricted welfare -- he has clinched the argument for the
opposition.

(WASHINGTON)--- Congressman Allen West (R-FL) released this statement today on the Israeli tourist attack in
Bulgaria:

"Blood has been
spilled today once again in the senseless death of Israeli citizens killed in a terrorist attack on a tour bus in a Bulgarian resort
town.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the
Israelis who lost their lives and those who were injured.

It is no coincidence this attack comes on the 18th Anniversaryof
the attack on a Jewish community center in the Argentine capital of
Buenos Aires. On this date two decades ago, 85 people lost their lives.

The terrorists behind today’s suicide
bombing, and others in the past, have one goal inmind; to invoke
terror and fear in the hearts and minds of the Israeli people. This
enemy, the same enemy that seeks to destroy the United States,
will stop at nothing to destroy Israel and to kill its sons and
daughters.

America must stand behind our strongest and most
steadfast ally in the Middle East, Israel, to find the perpetrators
behind today’s attack and ensure the protection of thenation and people of Israel.

It is essential
freedom-loving people do not allow these acts of terrorism to prevent them from defending the principles of liberty, freedom and democracy.

My commitment to the Jewish people grows ever stronger as a
result of this attack."

Sheriff Joe is right...the birth certificate is a phony. But I believe for an entirely different reason. I believe the phony was done as a cleverly crafted ploy to hide who the real daddy is and in my opinion it is NOT the man listed on the birth certificate. A picture speaks a thousand words. And also remember, if this man who I suspect is the daddy IS in fact the real daddy, then that would have had to be hidden because of who and what he was connected to, and if that came out it would have given Hillary the nomination. Think about it as it does raise some interesting speculation and again, a picture speaks a thousand words.

Michael Savage: Obama 'most evil' president ever

Warns tyranny begins with kind of rhetoric delivered over

From WND

Any
doubt Americans may have had that Barack Obama is a Marxist should be
alleviated now after hearing his rhetoric in a speech in Virginia over
the weekend, top talk-radio host Michael Savage told his listeners last
night.

Asserting that it is governments and not individuals who create jobs,
Obama told entrepreneurs Saturday: “If you’ve got a business – you
didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

“You didn’t get there on your own,” the president said. “I’m always
struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so
smart.”

After playing the audio of Obama’s remarks, Savage offered a blunt assessment.

Savage, noting he has studied dictatorships, recalled that tyrannical regimes “begin with innocent remarks like this.”

“This man is the most dangerous, most divisive, most evil – I’ll use the word evil – president in the history of America.”

Savage acknowledged he was “stepping up” his own rhetoric, because the situation requires it, and no one else will.

“Things don’t start the way they end,” he warned, drawing lessons
from history. “They start with the most innocent remarks like this.”

The elected Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler, whose rhetoric originated
with 19th century French anti-Semites, did not start with death camps
but with relatively benign racial purity laws, and no one stopped him,
Savage pointed out.

“The rhetoric Obama is expressing is not his own rhetoric,” Savage
said. ‘This is what is deeply embedded in the man’s brain stem. He has
been inculcated with hatred for the American way from the cradle.”

The Cambodian dictator Pol Pot, Savage recalled, “was a mild mannered
professor like Obama” who went to Paris, studied Marxism “and came back
a flaming communist.”

“It ended with a mountain of skulls,” Savage said, with some 2
million people slaughtered in Cambodia’s infamous “killing fields.”

Pol Pot, instituting what he was taught at Paris universities,
unleashed his Khmer Rouge on anyone with an education – the productive
people of society.

“What does this have to do with that nice man in the White House with
such a nice wife and nice children?” Savage asked his “Savage Nation”
audience.

“It starts with rhetoric like this,” he said. “It unleashes the genie
in the bottle. It justifies any acts of betrayal, any acts of hatred,
any acts of sabotage against the successful.”

He called Obama “the most hateful man who has ever plagued the White House.”

Talk Stream Live says it sampled more than 1.2 million listeners
during the first six months of the year to produce “The Power 50 Report”
– the 50 most influential talk show hosts on the Internet and on mobile
devices.

“We are proud to report that Rush Limbaugh is No. 1 and Michael
Savage is No. 2,” said TSL. “These are the most listened to talk show
hosts in the world.”

Savage’s show can be heard Monday through Friday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern Time on local stations nationwide and and via the Web.

Let me start by saying that Sheriff Joe and the Cold Case Posse
are honorable men on an honorable mission.
They’ve worked hard, so hard, and I salute their altruistic efforts in
trying to prove where Barack Hussein Obama was born.

Unfortunately, after yesterday’s press conference we are NO
further along in knowing where Obama was born.
We were asked to keep an open mind in the supposition that the original
intent of the investigation was to clear Obama of charges that he knowingly issued a phony birth certificate, but in all probability Obama most likely knew the
document presented on the White House web site was fraudulent all along.

Something ‘We the People’ suspected from day one but a phony
piece of paper does NOT answer the question of where Obama was born.

While much hoopla was made over the fact that if this birth
certificate was brought into a court of law it would NOT convince a judge of
its authenticity...so what, we all know it’s a phony and have known it since it
first appeared back in April 2011. What
we still don’t know, and I can’t state this enough, is where exactly was Obama
born. It could still very well be in Hawaii just NOT at the hospital that
the birth certificate lists or it could be that he was born in that hospital
but NOT under the name on any of the supposed birth certificates released.

So nothing new at all was really brought forth, in fact, this
was just an expanded recap of the March press conference and that is a shame as
we expected so much but got so little.

Cold Case Posse lead investigator Mike Zullo said the information
being presented confirms the document made public in April 2011 was most definitely
fraudulent. But hey, we already knew that
just as we knew the African designation was NOT used in 1961; just as we
knew that in Hawaii (under Hawaii Revised Statute 338-17.8) a person only had
to be a resident of Hawaii not necessarily a U.S. citizen and that they only had to paid
taxes there for one year to be able to register an out-of-state or foreign-born
person with an official Hawaii birth certificate; just as we knew and still know
that Congress needs to take a look at the birth certificate but also knowing
they never will; and just as we already knew long ago that the birth
certificate was a complete phony...BUT we still have NO real proof that Obama wasn't
born in Hawaii just that the April 2011 birth certificate has been doctored.

While at best this is strong circumstantial evidence that Barack Hussein
Obama was NOT born in Hawaii, we still need more, much much more to make a case
against Obama.

Sheriff Joe needed to prove this birth certificate was
knowingly and deliberately crafted to cover a birth that did NOT happen in
Hawaii and sadly, yesterday’s revelations just did NOT do it. And while Sheriff Joe intends to take the investigation
to government higher-ups, because of what he believes to be an imminent threat
to national security and U.S. immigration laws (because of the foreign born
aspect), it still does NOT answer the question of where Barack Hussein Obama
was born.

And that is the main question...where was he born, because
that and only that would determine if he was eligible to hold the office of
President of the United States. All else
is just frosting on the cake.

Remember back when Obama ran for the Illinois Senate that
all the newspapers reporting on him stated ‘Kenyan born Barack Obama’; remember
when Democrat Attorney Philip J. Berg filed a challenge to the nomination
petition with the Pennsylvania Commonwealth because he said Obama was “born at
Coast Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya located in Coast Province, to a father who was
a Kenyan citizen, and to a mother not old enough and did not reside in the U.S.
long enough to register the Candidate’s birth in Hawaii as a Natural Born
Citizen.”

Remember Obama was ‘Born in Kenya’ until April 2007
according to Archive.org which shows that the Dystel website used the following
biography for Obama as of April 3, 2007: “BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic
senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004
Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American
president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American
anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia,
Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND
INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller.”

Remember when Andrew Breitbart reported that Dystel &
Goderich, the literary agency that published a biography of Barack Obama saying
he was born in Kenya, had used the biography also until April of 2007, just two
months after Obama announced he would run for president.

Remember his grandmother saying she was present at Obama’s
birth in Kenya...remember all that and then remember that all Sheriff Joe has
proven is that this latest Hawaiian birth certificate is most assuredly a fraudulent document
proven by newly shown coding anomalies; proven by newly stated key information being missing
on the verification document Hawaii provided to Arizona’s secretary of state in
May; and that there is NO confirmation on record that the White House document
matched what was on file with the Hawaii Department of Health.

While this is added evidence to proving the birth
certificate is a phony, none of it helps answer the question of where Barack Hussein
Obama was born.

I was hoping for so much more especially since this press
conference was hyped for the past two weeks as going to deliver a bombshell, but I guess there is
some truth to the old adage that anything worth saying needs to be said right
away NOT held back until tomorrow...and may I add that in doing so you will
surely be disappointed, as I know I am.

The Cold Case Posse’s efforts are noble, but the bottom line
is that the cover-up into the truth about Barack Hussein Obama’s birth runs so
deep that even Sheriff Joe might never be able to find the answer.

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